Photos: Africville, gone but not forgotten

It began as a small settlement on the shore of Nova Scotia sometime after the end of the War of 1812 as a refuge and land of equality for black Loyalists and freed slaves. In the late 1960s, as a post-WWII development project, the Government of Halifax expatriated it’s residents using community dump trucks and leveled the town one home at a time. A park in Halifax named Seaview Park, where the community once stood, is being renamed Africville in honour of the community.